General Mcraven Quotes & Sayings

Liberals conceptualize government regulation as the protection of those who cannot protect themselves - protection of citizens, workers, honest businessmen, and the environment against possible harm by unscrupulous or negligent businesses and individuals. Government regulation of business is there to be sure that businesses don't hurt or cheat anyone. — George Lakoff

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism. — Antoine Fuqua

We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color. — Lin Yutang

Revere the Righteous One. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. — Jennifer Granholm

An' C is for claymore . . . and crivens, I'll gi'e ye sich a guid kickin' if'n you stick that sword intae me one muir time," shouted the third, turning and hurling himself at one of his brothers. — Terry Pratchett

We were not only poor and hungry. We had to feed unwanted insects with our blood! — Elena Acevedo

Nothing felt real, nothing felt intimate or close or true - it all
seemed like a terrible movie of my life that I was being forced to watch from hundreds of feet away. — Sierra Simone

Jeb regarded me with n o expression. "Do you believe in God, Allison?"
"No," I said immediately. "Is this the part where you tell me I'm going to hell?"
"This is hell," Jebbadiah said, gesturing to the town around us. "This is our punishment, our Tribulation. God has abandoned this world. The faithful have already gone on to their reward, and he has left the rest of us here, at the mercy of the demons and the devils. The sins of our fathers have passed to their children, and their children's children, and it will continue to be so until this world is completely destroyed. So it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, because He is not here. — Julie Kagawa

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. — Milton Friedman

A family is no place for privacy! — Elizabeth Berg